Hearing footsteps, Tan Qingze glanced back. When he saw that Jiang Lezhi was catching up, he instinctively quickened his pace.
But the footsteps behind him continued to pursue him.
Jiang Lezhi’s footsteps drew closer and closer. She was just about to catch up with Tan Qingze.
The next moment, Tan Qingze broke into a run. In the cold wind, he ran incredibly fast.
It was as though a ghost were chasing him from behind.
Jiang Lezhi chased him for a long time but still couldn’t catch up. In the end, she simply couldn’t run anymore and stopped where she was, panting heavily.
The moment Tan Qingze returned to the dormitory, Lin Zhiyang’s pillow came flying at him. “Tan Qingze, you beast!”
Tan Qingze was already in a terrible mood. He knocked the pillow away with the back of his hand. “What the hell are you freaking out about?”
Lin Zhiyang covered his heart in anguish. He stretched out one finger and pointed at him. “What did you do to my goddess?! You beast! You actually pushed my goddess to the ground!”
Tan Qingze: !!
“You even rejected my goddess’s kiss! Tan Qingze, you and I are enemies forever!”
Tan Qingze irritably glanced at Lin Zhiyang.
It was only when Lin Zhiyang threw his phone over that Tan Qingze froze in place after taking one look at it.
The school forums and message boards had exploded…
It was a post made ten minutes earlier:
【Oh my god! What year is it?! What did I just see? Everyone, I think I witnessed Tan Qingze and Jiang Lezhi’s breakup!
This is how the story began. My boyfriend and I were chatting on a bench beside Dormitory Building Eight. While we were talking, we noticed that Tan Qingze had arrived. It was too dark, so it was my boyfriend who recognized him! (Picture)
Jiang Lezhi had been dragged there by him. When we saw them, Jiang Lezhi was crying nonstop. We were sitting a little too far away to hear what Tan Qingze was saying clearly, but we could tell that he looked somewhat at a loss.
We vaguely heard Tan Qingze saying something about being her boyfriend or something like that. We didn’t dare record a video because we were afraid of being discovered, so we only have pictures. (Picture)
Tan Qingze was probably comforting Jiang Lezhi. After about seven or eight minutes, the two of them must have reached an impasse, because Tan Qingze stood up! And then, everyone, here comes the important part! Our Jiang Lezhi directly kissed him!!!!
Who understands this?! She just went right in and kissed him, but Tan Qingze pushed her away almost immediately! She even fell to the ground…
After that, Tan Qingze walked away angrily, while Jiang Lezhi followed behind him and chased him for a long time without catching up!
That’s the entire story from tonight. I really didn’t expect Tan Qingze and Jiang Lezhi to actually!!!! Good grief!】
Not long after the post was published, its view count began to skyrocket.
There had been no shortage of passersby who had seen the two of them together that night. Quite a few people had even seen Jiang Lezhi walking and crying the entire way, with Tan Qingze following beside her.
That directly confirmed the post’s authenticity.
There were an extraordinary number of replies below it. At that moment, it wasn’t just the message board that was lively—the confession wall had also become lively.
The boys were practically weeping tears of blood.
They had pursued Jiang Lezhi for so long, yet she had not only been indifferent to them, she had now taken the initiative to kiss Tan Qingze!
That alone would have been bad enough, but the accursed Tan Qingze had actually pushed Jiang Lezhi away…
They were furious!
The girls, meanwhile, were in a complicated mood. Along with feeling upset, they were also a little heartbroken.
【What does this mean? Is the poster saying that my male god and my Jiang Lezhi got together? And then broke up? Or was it our Jiang Lezhi who took the initiative to try to keep him???】
【Oh heavens! You might as well kill me!】
【Why does this feel like my male god and my daughter got together…】
The replies below were filled with wails, with all sorts of things being said.
Most of all, people were shocked.
Lin Zhiyang and the others were also stunned when they came across the forum post.
Tan Qingze pulling Jiang Lezhi away was one thing. The two of them being together was also one thing!
He had already seen the marks on Tan Qingze and Jiang Lezhi’s lips. Although his heart had shattered, he had accepted it!
But when he saw the poster saying that Tan Qingze had pushed Jiang Lezhi to the ground, and that Jiang Lezhi had continued running after Tan Qingze, he truly couldn’t hold back anymore!
Where was his knife?
Where was his knife?!
He was going to hack Tan Qingze to death!
And it was at precisely that moment that Tan Qingze happened to return.
That was how the scene of Lin Zhiyang cursing him came about.
After reading the post, Tan Qingze’s expression grew darker and darker. He tossed the phone back, picked up his toiletries, and walked into the bathroom.
The more he washed, the more irritated he became. The densely packed sensation on his lips seemed to linger still.
He irritably scratched at his hair.
Meanwhile, Jiang Lezhi still had no idea what was happening on the forums. She only felt that people had been looking at her all the way back to the dormitory.
She suspiciously touched her face. Had she failed to wipe it clean?
No, she hadn’t. She had clearly opened the camera and wiped her face clean.
Now that she could finally speak, Jiang Lezhi especially cherished this chance to talk. She skipped all the way back to the dormitory.
When she pushed open the dormitory door, she saw that Jiang Jiaojiao and Gu Qing were both already dressed, looking as though they were about to go out. She smiled at them. “Where are you two going?”
The two of them brightened at the sound of her voice.
“Lezhi! You can speak again!”
“We were just getting ready to go look for you. Are you all right?”
“I’m fine! What’s wrong?”
The expressions on Jiang Jiaojiao and Gu Qing’s faces were both somewhat complicated.
After struggling for a while, they decided that Jiang Lezhi’s condition didn’t look like that of someone whose confession had been rejected. They could no longer hold back and switched into gossip mode.
The two of them told Jiang Lezhi everything that had been posted on the message board, then took out the rather blurry photograph. “Look!”
After reading everything, the expression on Jiang Lezhi’s face gradually stiffened.
The pallor spreading across her face was visible to the naked eye…
This was bad!
She gave a smile that was all surface and no sincerity. “By any chance, do you know Tan Qingze’s WeChat?”
Jiang Jiaojiao immediately perked up. “There really is something going on! You only went out a short while ago!”
Gu Qing stroked her chin. “Things are getting interesting!”
“So do you have it or not?”
The two of them moved in perfect unison. “No!”
As if! How could they possibly have Tan Qingze’s WeChat? Besides, it wasn’t on the message board either.
After all, there were simply too many people who wanted to add Tan Qingze. If someone really leaked his WeChat QR code, the messages on his phone probably wouldn’t stop coming.
Jiang Lezhi rubbed her face. What was she going to do?
It seemed she had completely offended her lifeline!
And no matter how one looked at it, she was the one in the wrong over what had happened that night.
She had even caused him trouble…
The more Jiang Lezhi thought about it, the more she felt that this was an utterly disastrous start. She decided that the most important thing now was to apologize to Tan Qingze first.
Then she would find a way to make him kiss her once every day.
But from the looks of things, that would probably be somewhat difficult—no, extremely difficult…
Jiang Lezhi nearly scratched her head bald, but she still couldn’t think of any solution. After hesitating for a while, she decided not to tell Jiang Jiaojiao and Gu Qing for the time being that kissing Tan Qingze could help her recover her ability to speak.
After all, when explained aloud, something like this would sound just like she was talking in her sleep.